Antoinette
Pierre, an educational consultant responded saying: We must provide a culture
that lends itself to positive thinking and attitudes as we interact with our
children in schools. It is important that we are the models for our children,
therefore the behavior we exhibit as we interact with them must be positive
because it is not always positive in other aspects of their lives.

This
was my response:

It is very difficult to teach black children to think
positively about human values when

they are being raised on lies. The media, whether it be
network news, cable news, reality shows, or black dramas, constantly bombards
black children with lies. In black movies such as Django Unchained or The
Butler, buffoonery is substituted for reality. Black music, especially hip-hop
and rap, assaults human values with wave after wave of filth and decadence.
Even if they wanted to defend their children, black parents are helpless in the
face of this deluge of evil cascading over the airwaves.

The schools are little better. History and social science
courses are filled with half-truths, distortions and outright lies. The
dominance of European culture requires that black children be overawed by the power
of European culture even though its is largely myth. Even as Europeans invade
countries, overthrow governments, assassinate leaders and steal resources, they
continually claim to be the innocent victims of non-White and non-Christian
fanaticism___ declaring a worldwide War On Terror against all non-Europeans.

In the face of these facts, how can black children be taught
positive human values?

Because black people do not comprehend, analyze, synthesize or
apply new information, they are always behind the dominant thinking of the age.
This was true of the agrarian, industrial and the present information age. The latest economic indicators show that black
people are unaware that they now live in a 'cashless' society. The intellectual
pathologies observed by E, Franklin Frazier in his classic study, Black
Bourgeoisie, are still operative in the black community, today. In the black community, social status is not
based upon reality, but upon pretense.

Black people who do not read, cannot role model reading for
their children. It is difficult to teach kids positive human values if parents
don't know what a human value is and don't have anyone to enlighten them. Furthermore,
many blacks who do read are not increasing their intellectual capital. If one
were to examine the list of top ten best selling books in the black community,
fiction as well as non-fiction, one would discover that the black readership
favors erotic literature over all other literary genres by an overwhelming
margin. Sex remains the major preoccupation of black readers. With black adults
so preoccupied with sex, it is difficult to see where black children will get any
positive attitudes about human values.